Jasper Friedrich

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I am a social and political philosopher interested in social critique, and political emotions. Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College and the Department of Politics and IR, University of Oxford.

My work is concerned with the politics of emotions and mental health, post-conflict reconciliation, and theories of immanent critique. I draw on a wide range of sources in my writings, including critical theory and continental political philosophy, but also analytic philosophy, sociological and psychological theory, and cognitive science, among other things. I am currently writing a book about how our emotions can help us understand and resist injustice and oppression. Tentatively titled The Miserable is Political: How Negative Emotions Enable Critique and Resistance, it links debates about immanent critique to work in feminist philosophy of emotions, and argues that our emotional experience of the world is the basis for our ability to question and critique it.

I have taught undergraduate tutorials in political theory and critical theory at various Oxford colleges, and graduate seminars in ethics and public policy at the Blavatnik School of Government. I also supervise students on Oxford's MPhil in Political Theory.

For my DPhil, I received funding through a Clarendon Scholarship, the Corpus Christi–A. E. Haigh Scholarship, and the Royal Institute of Philosophy's Jacobsen Studentship. Previously, I completed an MSc Political Theory Research at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, with a thesis on the politics of mental health and generous funding from an Oxford–Trygfonden Scholarship. Before that, I studied International Relations and Linguistics at the University of Aberdeen and wrote an undergraduate thesis on state apologies for historical injustices.

Contact & Links
Email: jasper.friedrich (at) politics.ox.ac.uk
Bluesky: @jasperfriedrich.bsky.social
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